Federica Bianco: How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems
Federica Bianco: Como usamos a astrofísica para estudar problemas da Terra
TED Fellow Federica Bianco is a cross-disciplinary scientist who can't stay still. Full bio
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across the universe.
I have the incredible opportunity
ter a incrível oportunidade
only that, always that,
keeping attention and getting bored
em manter a atenção e ficar entediada
em uma vantagem?
touch or interact with
ou interagir com as coisas que estuda.
to figure out why or how it blew up.
para descobrir como e por que explodiu.
that originated space and time,
o espaço e o tempo,
of stars and galaxies,
das estrelas e galáxias,
as complex as the entire universe,
tão complexo como o Universo,
at extracting simple models and solutions
em extrair modelos e soluções simples
com esta habilidade?
around towards us?
that is exactly what we are doing.
no Urban Observatory.
in New York University in 2013,
da Universidade de Nova York em 2013,
como se fossem estrelas.
de acordo com o tempo
of exploding stars.
das estrelas explosivas.
do mesmo modo,
the city needs and consumes
a cidade precisa e consome
or growing urban environments.
de ambientes urbanos em crescimento.
we capture plumes of pollution.
capturamos plumas de poluição.
of greenhouse gases in New York City
75% dos gases de efeito estufa
burning oil for heat.
que queima óleo para seu aquecimento.
com sensores de qualidade do ar.
with air quality sensors.
on each New York City building,
em cada prédio na cidade de Nova York
we built a mathematical model,
construímos um modelo matemático,
and track these plumes
e rastrear as plumas no céu da cidade.
white and evanescent;
branco e evanescente;
dark and persistent --
with a map of neighborhood pollution.
para os fiscais ambientais.
created transformational solutions.
criou soluções transformadoras.
we use in astrophysics
de dados usada em astrofísica
a qualquer conjunto de dados,
um promotor da Califórnia
a California district attorney
in their jurisdiction.
judiciários na jurisdição dele.
ou presas em cadeias,
or sitting in jail,
pelo julgamento há anos.
what kind of cases dragged on,
que tipo de casos se arrastavam,
para exploração e análise,
to explore to understand it,
in their office to do so.
em seu escritório para fazer isso.
public policy professor Angela Hawken,
de políticas públicas Angela Hawken,
a visual dashboard
the prosecution process.
o processo de acusação.
analyzed their data,
of the process
in their jurisdiction.
na jurisdição deles.
milhares de explosões estelares,
thousands of stellar explosions,
de processos judiciais.
que pode servir para qualquer jurisdição
to other jurisdictions
a explorar suas tendências.
domain experts and astrophysicists
especialistas da área e astrofísicos
de vida das pessoas.
para a ciência urbana
to urban science,
back to astrophysics.
de volta para a astrofísica.
onto interstellar dust.
em poeira interestelar.
as white, evanescent, moving features,
como brancos, evanescentes, móveis,
that detect plumes in city images
que detectam plumas em imagens urbanas
in images of the sky.
em imagens celestes.
that interest and excite me,
que me interessam e me empolgam,
em uma qualidade.
that can generate new insight
perspectivas únicas
transformational solutions.
inovadoras e inesperadas.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Federica Bianco - Cross-disciplinary scientistTED Fellow Federica Bianco is a cross-disciplinary scientist who can't stay still.
Why you should listen
Astrophysicist, professor, professional boxer and TED Fellow Federica Bianco studies stellar explosions, using the same methodologies to understand urban and social problems. She uses data-science to both study the universe and tackle problems on earth, like pollution in New York City, prosecutorial justice and how city lights can create resilient electric grids and.
Bianco splits her time as a professor at the University of Delaware in the Department of Physics and Astrophysics (where she runs a lab focusing on light curves), the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration and the Urban Observatory, where she uses her astrophysics skills to study urban problems. She is also the coordinator the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Science Collaboration, a network of more than 1,500 scientists. The LSST, under construction in Chile, will go online in 2023 to survey the night sky and image the southern hemisphere sky at unprecedented depth and resolution. The collaboration will study everything about it, from the thousands of changes it will discover in the sky every night to billions of stars and galaxies, many that have never been seen before.
Bianco has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, was a Smithsonian predoctoral and James Arthur postdoctoral fellow and was the recipient of a Department of Energy "Innovative Development in Energy-Related Applied Science" grant. When she isn't doing science, you will find her in the boxing ring, where she has made a name for herself as "The MadScientist." She is known for fighting her heart out both in and out of the ring.
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